Role: Women’s Safety Officer (Domestic Abuse Advocate)
Location: Merseyside
Type: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours (Hybrid Working)
Salary: £28,300 per annum
We are recruiting on behalf of a specialist Merseyside based Domestic Abuse Charity for 2 Women’s Safety Officers. The roles will focus on supporting women who have/ are experiencing domestic abuse, particularly post-separation abuse and stalking and harassment.
This is a vital, frontline role working with women after separation from an abusive partner, helping them to understand and manage risk, navigate complex systems such as child custody and safeguarding, and to feel safer and more supported in their lives.
About the Role
The position integrates specialist survivor support and actions that reduce a perpetrator’s opportunity to cause harm. You will be working to reduce risk and provide long-term positive outcomes to survivors through delivering a coordinated community response, working with a range of partners, information sharing and monitoring, safety planning and engagement with friends and family.
Key responsibilities include:
Providing rapid interventions and ongoing specialist one-to-one support to survivors at risk of homelessness due to domestic abuse, post-separation abuse or stalking – this will include conducting robust risk assessments, developing personalised safety plans and agreeing support and action plans
Supporting survivors pre, during and post high-risk transitions including separation, court processes, child contact and stalking escalation
Advocating for survivors at multi-agency meetings including MARAC, police stalking panels, risk meetings, and child protection conferences and working closely with police, children’s services, adult safeguarding, housing, legal services, healthcare, and VAWG partners.
Promoting accountability through partnership working, evidence-gathering, and proactive challenge and sharing intelligence appropriately and disrupting harm
Engaging and training friends and family members to support survivors and strengthen safety networks We Are Looking For Someone Who:
Experience of supporting/ advocating/ working with survivors of domestic abuse and an understanding of the dynamics of abuse
The postholder must demonstrate confident decision-making around adult and child safeguarding thresholds, and escalate appropriately
Understanding of perpetrator behaviour, escalation patterns, coercive control, and stalking indicators, homicide and suicide prevention strategies
Experience working with police, safeguarding, or multi-agency partners to reduce risk and increase survivor safety and autonomyWhat We Offer
Excellent training and development programmes and a commitment to supporting and developing staff
Regular supervision and support within a skilled, values-driven management team
The opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the safety and lives of women and families across MerseysideIf you are passionate about safety, accountability and trauma-informed practice, and want to work within a model that truly understands the realities of domestic abuse, we would love to hear from you.
For more information, please call the team on (phone number removed) and ask to speak to Ria or email her your CV at
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